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Ahmedabad, 18-20th September.
In Primo Levi’s 1946 short story ‘I mnemagoghi’, or ‘The mnemagogues’, a doctor named Montesanto has developed an olfactory process of recall by concocting chemicals which replicate smells from isolated moments of his life. He invites a junior physician, Morandi, to unstopper the vials and remark upon what he smells. There is a moment in the…
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RA Summer Show, Zubarán
It was 7.37pm on a hot Friday. Admittedly a very hot Friday, which might precipitate the swollen numbers in the icy halls of the Royal Academy. There could easily have been 500 people there. I couldn’t help but feel that an important thing was unfurling itself before my eyes, or rather, less solipsistically, an important…
